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EP1703815B1
EP1703815B1 EP04710963A EP04710963A EP1703815B1 EP 1703815 B1 EP1703815 B1 EP 1703815B1 EP 04710963 A EP04710963 A EP 04710963A EP 04710963 A EP04710963 A EP 04710963A EP 1703815 B1 EP1703815 B1 EP 1703815B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D13/00—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches
    • A41D13/015—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with shock-absorbing means
    • A41D13/018—Professional, industrial or sporting protective garments, e.g. surgeons' gowns or garments protecting against blows or punches with shock-absorbing means inflatable automatically
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
    • B62J—CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS
    • B62J27/00—Safety equipment
    • B62J27/20—Airbags specially adapted for motorcycles or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D2600/00—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes
    • A41D2600/10—Uses of garments specially adapted for specific purposes for sport activities
    • A41D2600/102—Motorcycling

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  • the present invention refers to a garment incorporating inflatable protective devices that are commonly known and referred to as airbags.
  • Garments provided with or associated to airbags have already been introduced on the market, in which said airbags are intended to be triggered automatically upon appropriate sensors detecting a condition of very high risk potentially existing in the case of bump, collision and/or particularly abrupt, violent braking.
  • connection between the sensors (and possible electronic control units) arranged on the motorcycle and the airbags typically consisted of a cable.
  • Such cable turns out as being much of an inconvenience for the motorcyclist, owing to its being both a hindrance and a constraint.
  • safety problems may arise if this connection cable happens to accidentally break or fail, entraining complex handling to deal with the resulting emergency condition. Similar problems may also arise from the cable wearing down with time.
  • a jacket 1 adapted to be worn by a person riding an associated motorcycle 10.
  • the invention enables a many-to-one interaction to be managed between the jacket 1 and the motorcycle 10 and vice-versa; for a greater simplicity, the case of a single jacket 1 associated to a single motorcycle 10 is considered in Figure 1 .
  • On said motorcycle 10 there is provided a first functional module 20 associated to a second functional module 30 provided on the jacket 1.
  • Sensors, as generally indicated at 12 are provided on the motorcycle 10 and are connected to said module 20 via generally known connection means 14 (e.g. copper conductors, optical waveguide fibres, and the like).
  • the module 20 acquires the information flowing in from the sensors 12 and processes said information through a programmable logic unit 21, which in parallel thereto also processes the information flowing in from an accelerometer 23 (which may be implemented in an integrated form, e. g. the type ADXL210 by Analog Devices).
  • a first non-volatile memory 22 (where the serial code identifying the individual module 20 used for the radio communication is stored) and a second non-volatile service memory 26 (which may be provided either inside or outside said unit 21) are accessible by said logic unit 21.
  • the logic unit reads said serial code and submits it to an encoder 24, which drives a radio-transmitting stage 25.
  • the connections of the various functional blocks with each other are indicated in the form of arrows for greater clarity and simplicity. Again they may be implemented by any suitable means known in the art, such as data buses on PCB.
  • the second module 30 includes a programmable logic unit 31 connected via generally known means to: a non-volatile memory 32 for saving said serial code being so assigned on an exclusive basis to each single module 20, a trigger circuit 33 for triggering the inflating devices 36 associated to the airbags (not shown, also provided on the jacket 1), a decoder 34, and a non-volatile service memory 37.
  • the decoder 34 is connected to a radio receiver 35.
  • a third user-interface module 40 (which is implemented as an external module in this embodiment, but could as well be integrated in the second module 30), which comprises push-buttons 41 for manual control, and a driving circuit 42 for a display 43 (e. g. a liquid-crystal or a light-emitting segment display).
  • the modules 20 and 30 are energized by respective power-supply units (not shown) of any suitable kind known in the art, e. g. batteries, photovoltaic cells, etc.
  • the logic unit 21 reads from the memory 22 the serial code identifying the same module 20 and subsequently enters a stand-by cycle.
  • the logic unit 31 checks the value of the supply voltage and, via the receiver 35 and the decoder 34, searches out a valid identifying serial code, as transmitted by a corresponding module 20. If the logic unit 31 finds one or more serial codes, it stores them in the non-volatile memory 37 and shows them on the display 43 through the associated driving circuit 42. With the help of the push-buttons 41, the user is at this point able to select among the codes being displayed the one that corresponds to a given module 20 (and, therefore, to a given motorcycle 10). In view of simplifying the process of associating the modules 20 and 30 with each other, the logic unit 31, while analysing the values stored in the memory 37, will in the first place show on the display 43 the last code in use.
  • the logic unit 31 receives, via the receiver 35 and the decoder 34, a danger signal from a module 20, (which the user has associated with the module 30 provided on the jacket through the above-described enabling procedure) it activates the circuit 33, thereby causing the devices 36 to trigger and, as a result, the airbags to inflate.
  • such inflation of the airbags may take place in a programmable manner.
  • the driver is not travelling alone on a motorcycle 10, but is carrying a passenger with him/her, who is also wearing a jacket 1 recognized by the same motorcycle 10 (and, therefore, by the module 20 thereof)
  • a problem arises in that both of them should be ensured an adequate extent of protection.
  • the sudden inflation of the airbags actually has to take place in a manner not causing a damage to any of the two motorcyclists.
  • each wearer of a jacket 1 is able to select which of his/her airbags shall be actually permitted to inflate. For example, if the jacket 1 is provided with a front and a rear airbag, the driver will select that only the front one of his/her own airbags is permitted to inflate in the case of an accident, while the passenger will select that only his/her rear one is permitted to inflate.
  • This is in fact allowed for by the versatility of the logic unit 31 and the triggering commands being separated in the circuit 33 for the various airbags forming the inflatable protection devices of the invention.
  • the module 30 may actually be contemplated for the module 30, e. g. a low-energy consumption mode of operation controlled by the module 20 or safety checks to be run in the case that the identification signal is not being detected during a pre-set period of time or in the case that the battery voltage becomes insufficient.
  • the module 40 may then be provided with either sound or mechanical (e.g. vibratory) alarm means to call the attention of the user on the existence of said problems.
  • the procedure performed as set forth under step V above enables, in the case of dangerous events and/or collisions, the acceleration value at the moment of the accident to be retrieved from the data stored in said non-volatile memory 26.

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  1. Vêtement (1), pourvu d'au moins un dispositif de protection gonflable et destiné à être porté par une personne se déplaçant sur un moyen mobile (10), comportant le jeu de pièces suivantes en plus d'une :
    a) un récepteur radio (34, 35), permettant de communiquer à distance, au moyen d'un code d'identification, avec un transmetteur radio associé (24, 25) monté sur ledit moyen mobile (10) ;
    b) un circuit à déclenchement (33) pour déclencher ledit au moins un dispositif de protection gonflable en réponse à un signal d'alarme reçu dudit transmetteur radio (24, 25) ;
    c) et des mémoires non volatiles (32, 37).
    caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend en outre au moins une unité logique programmable (31) interfaçant ledit récepteur radio (35), qui gère et stocke dans au moins l'une (37) desdites mémoires non volatiles le code d'identification détecté par ledit récepteur radio (35) et permet à la personne portant le vêtement (1) de choisir, au moyen d'une interface utilisateur (40), un code spécifique parmi ceux disponibles dans ladite mémoire.
  2. Vêtement selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) interface de plus ledit circuit à déclenchement (33) et active ce circuit à déclenchement en réponse à un signal d'alarme reçu dudit transmetteur radio (24, 25).
  3. Vêtement selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit récepteur radio est constitué par la succession d'un récepteur radio (35) et d'un décodeur (34).
  4. Vêtement selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que ladite interface utilisateur (40) comporte au moins un bouton poussoir (41), un affichage (43) et un circuit pilote (42) correspondant.
  5. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'unité d'alimentation en énergie est une batterie incluse dans le vêtement (1) pour alimenter ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) et les composants interfacés grâce à elle.
  6. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) peut travailler dans un état de faible consommation d'énergie.
  7. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite interface utilisateur (40) permet à la personne portant le vêtement (1) de programmer dans ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) le signal de commande qui doit être envoyé audit circuit à déclenchement (33), gérant et commandant ce faisant chacun des dispositifs gonflables individuels séparément.
  8. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) effectue les procédures, peut effectuer un contrôle de sécurité de la tension de l'unité d'alimentation en énergie.
  9. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite au moins une unité logique programmable (31) interface avec des indicateurs d'alarme sonore ou mécanique.
  10. Vêtement selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il s'agit d'un blouson de moto.
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